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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Suma who wrote (254957)7/4/2014 11:52:40 AM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) of 540808
 
The thing is suma, the misery African American's suffered in the south was much greater than almost anyone seems willing to remember, recognize or admit.

But beyond that, is the idea that people would do that to other people is such a foreign concept to me I never could even remotely wrap my mind around it.

Maybe I was just luckier than most in having a smart mom who figured out how terrible it was by herself and preached it to me. But she was also the kindest person I ever knew and the two are tied together.

As I have mentioned before my mom was one of 12 kids most of whom live in Oklahoma. I must have a hundred relatives back there and I have no communication with any of them.

I visited them for a week when I was 22 and my uncle was even a pastor. When I left I had my aunt crying because I defended a black kid who stabbed a white kid because he was being beaten up by a gang of white kids.

So that was the end of my relationship with my family. My mother felt the same way so we just disappeared.

More than anything to me it points out just how ruthless people can be. And I find that repugnant.

The movie the HELP said a lot of it, but Leonard Pitts's book on the Black chain gangs that existed from after the civil war until the 1930's really tells the true horror.
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